Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

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Kwami Ahiabenu, II with President Kuffour of Ghana and Paul Kangame of Rwanda

Ghana was amongst the first countries in Africa to get connected. Although it suffers from all the usual constraints on growth - especially the high costs of connectivity - it is estimated that around half a million people have access to the web in some form. Kwami Ahiabenu describes the development of Ghana's internet culture. The genesis of the Internet in Ghana started in the early nineties(1989/90) with the initiation of a pilot project by the Pan African Development Information system (PADIS) and the International Development Centre (IDRC) Fidonet network to connect the Ghana National Scientific and Technological Information Network (GHASTINET), the Association of African Universities(AAU) and the Technology Transfer Centre (TCC), to GreenNet in London by dial-up. The service was limited to E-mail which was sent 3 times a week at 2400bps. Later, AAU started using Unix to Unix Copy Protocol (UUCP) while the Health institutions migrated to HealthNet. The HealthNet system was bas...

Time is fast approaching for the 3rd Legal information and knowledge management workshop So today Wednesday 12 July 2006, set off for Elimina at 6.00am sharp the journey was quite uneventful, it was cool in the morning so was driving at 100km per hour with all my windows open Traffic getting into Accra was very packed, grateful that I was heading in the opposite direction Saw a lot of policeman on high way duty but none of them stop me till 15km to Mankesim, I was flagged down by three policeman, apparently they wanted a ride to Mankesim http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/ghana/map/m2879719/mankesim.html and I gladdly gave them a ride. Apparently, these policeman were on funeral duty that means a dead important person need a police security at his funeral At 9.ooam arrived in Cape Coast and my first point of call was Cape Coast University http://www.uccghana.net/ , the Computer Science and Information Technology Dept to be precise, had a scheduled meeting with Mr. Daniel Obubi who...

Currently reading Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel very interesting paper pack written by a prolific Nigeria writer the story set during the second World War and the only means of modern entertainment was the The Mobile Cinema Van. the book is very rich is proverbs and a lot of wise words The main character is Obuechina Maduabuchi ( mouthful) who happened to be the only boy born to his parents Mama Obu( short form of Obuechina) and Papa Lazarus Maduabuchi among six older sisters. Due to the "value" placed on the male child, he become a totaly spoilt brat, though academically brilliam Obu was growing into a hopelessly spoilt child to reverse this trend, Papa Lazarus decided to send him away as a servant to a schoolmasster with a dragon of a wife Of course, Obu goes and comes back very different published by University Press PLC Ibadan Nigeria 1993 email address is unipress AT skannet.com.gh though first published by Harvill Press 1973 ISBN 9780302832 WORDS FROM TH...

currently working on web 2.0 article, have written a short article about it but working on a longer one, this is taking some time becuase, I am not spending more time on it hope to devote more time to it and produce a master piece hopefully LOL

I took time off today to play with SMS via the web it was very cool, had to work on my database and convert it into a CVS which enable me to import it into the SMS databas thereafter, I was able to compose and send messages out, I am using this tool to remind people to check mails but more importantly since we need to wake up participants coming to our legal KM workshop early in the morning to drive two and half hours to the workshop venue, hope to use the tool of SMS to wake them up, hope they would not be cross with us about reminding them to woke up read more about our SMS solution provider SMSGH, http://smsgh.alcamidesign.com/smsgh/home/ or www.smsgh.net a youthful Ghanaian company with a dedicated team of professionals who develop this product locally, very impressive During my play time with SMS, customer care from SMSGH was superby. My contact person Alex was particulary helpful in walking me through the system, though easy to use, you need to learn some few things Recently...

Ghanaian corporate lawyers will be gathered at Elimina Beach Hotel from 13th to 14th July 2006, for the 3rd Legal Information and Knowledge management workshop under the theme: Developing Legal Information and Knowledge Management Strategies for Change. Knowledge management is a new field of management now assuming a very important strategy for successful organizations. Knowledge management strategies empower organizations to acquire both the financial and non financial assets necessary to better inform and align their work to key organizational objectives. The increasing relevance of knowledge management and the contributions of knowledge management to the legal field present unparallel opportunities, innovations and strategies for the legal counsel. It is against this background that AITEC and Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has over the last two years successfully organized the Legal Information and Knowledge Management Workshop to equip Ghana corporate lawyers with the relevant tool to...

My day with Peter Day, the host of BBC Global Business ++++ picture show Kwami with Peter Day after Peter interviewed him for Global Business http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/review_globbus.shtml from Accra, Ghana

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Highway Africa Conference www.highwayafrica.ru.ac.za/ is a very exciting networking space and knowledge opportunity. Hope to be at 2006 Ten anniversary big duo and help in training sessions as well, check out my blog over 11 to 15 September 2006 for more info from HA 2006

i am currently working on 3rd Legal Information and Knowledge Management workshop scheduled for 13th and 14th July 2006 at http://www.gbhghana.com/elmina.html we hope to have 35 legal practioners participating in this two day workshop AITEC GHANA www.aitecafrica.com and Ghana Bar Association (GBA) are joint organisers of this workshop

My name is Kwami Ahiabenu,II knowledge chief sounds very interesting, it does not mean I am chief of all knowledge but any indication that I am helping create and share knowledge